The project aims to analyse land use and land cover dataset in urban areas and assess the accessibility to green spaces. The study area of the project is the city of Glasgow. The data is open source, though it is provided only for pan-European countries. The data, used in the project, is dated as 2012. The project is done in Arcmap and QGIS. All the maps are created in QGIS

The map shows the distribution of land-use types. As we see, the core of the city is mostly represented by industrial and commercial areas. The types of classes are defined by the creature of the dataset.

The map shows the distribution of green urban areas, which are extracted from the land-use dataset.

The map estimates the accessibility of urban green areas. Access to green places is measured by creating 500 m buffers. We see that the vast majority of the territory has access, except the small parts, though these parts do not represent settled areas.

The map represents the different method of analysis of the accessibility to green areas. For research, I have extracted residential land type and have used near analysis tool to find closest green spaces for each settled area. The extend of the map is Glasgow's urban core, and it shows green urban areas inside it and residential land by the distance to green places.

The map also represents an example of the importance of the "right" colours. Even though the colour palette is nice, it may trigger the map reader's perception as less accessible areas are shown with greener colour. Thus, when creating a map, we must consider how the information will be perceived and keep the link between the map maker and map reader.

The map shows the distances of land use from the city centre. The circular buffer zones represent the spatial unit and refer to distance dependence to the city centre.